How Disney's "Marvelous" Acquisition Helps Us

So if you haven't heard the news yet, The Walt Disney Company has just acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion (Source).

I was totally surpised by this news. Naturally, the first thing I began thinking about was how this acquisition will affect SleepyComics.com, given that I rely heavily on providing sleepy content. It occurred to me that this could not have come at a more opportune time.

I go through probably hundreds of comics each month, and I am slowly starting to realize that comics with a certain mature theme have very little in terms of sleepy or bondage content. Comics like Punisher, X-Men, Detective Comics and others rely a lot on violence to trigger an emotional response in its readers. I mean comics these days are just chock full of brutal, bloody violence.

In my years of searching, I noticed an opposite trend in family friendly, children's comics. Kids comics avoid all the bloody violence found in adult comics, but how then do they keep reader's interest? Where's the drama in a children's comic? The answer, is harmless peril in the form of bondage and knockout scenes. Think about it. What's the least violent way to put a female character in danger? Tie her up or spray her with sleeping gas. Where are you most likely to find such scenes? Children's Comics.

The best thing that could come out of this deal, is Walt Disney pushing for more family friendly kids comics from Marvel. I'm talking about Marvel Adventures for Kids, featuring the Fantastic Four, Spiderman, The Avengers. That's where the sleepy and bondage scenes will be.

I'll be keeping a close eye on Marvel Comics in the coming months.